V. I. Lenin

THE RIGHT OF NATIONS
TO
SELF-DETERMINATION



Written February-May 1914        
Published in April-June 1914        
in the journal Prosveshcheniye        
No. 4, 5 and 6        
Signed V. Ilyin        

Published according to
the text in the journal
 
 
 



From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1964

Vol. 20, pp. 393-454.

Translated from the Russian by
Bernard Isaacs and Joe Fineberg
Edited by Julius Katzer


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@cruzio.com (May 1997)

THE RIGHT OF NATIONS TO SELF-DETERMINATION

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What is Meant by the Self-Determination of Nations? .  .  .
The Historically Concrete Presentation of the Question .  .
The Concrete Features of the National Question in Russia,
and Russia's Bourgeois-Democratic Reformation .  .  .  .  .
"Practicality" in the National Question .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
The Liberal Bourgeoisie and the Socialist Opportunists in
the National Question .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Norway's Secession from Sweden  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
The Resolution of the London International Congress, 1896 .
The Utopian Karl Marx and the Practical Rosa Luxemburg .  .
The 1903 Programme and Its Liquidators .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Conclusion . .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

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